User talk:Tomji Turner

Copyright violation at Reid Bryson[edit]

Your addition to Reid Bryson has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. 32.218.34.230 (talk) 16:32, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the author of the article I put on wiki says:

Dear Thomas:

Yes, you absolutely have my permission to use the article for the purpose you state. I worked with your father over many years and had a great deal of respect for his contributions to science and the University of Wisconsin. In fact, I caught up just last night with Jon Foley, president of the California Academy of Sciences, and the first person to hold the chair named in honor of your father. I learned a great deal from Reid, so I’m flattered by your request.

Best wishes,

Terry

As you can see, it is not a copyright infringement. I don't know if a robot removed my article. Please return it to the site.

Username Tomji Turner.

Did you read the material at the link above about donating copyrighted materials? Did you notice the section explaining that you cannot donate what someone else owns? Are you related to Reid Bryson? 32.218.34.230 (talk) 17:13, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did not read the link. Yes I am related to Reid Bryson. It has bothered me for years that the entry is so incomplete and focuses on what a mediocre newspaper used as an out of context quote in a polemic fashion. The author of the article is content that I use it. Sorry if I have not researched wikipedias policies adequatly.

Well, if you're related to Reid Bryson, then you also have a conflict of interest (see below). I'd recommend that you suggest edits on the article's talk page, and other editors will then vet them. Be aware that, even if the article you inserted was not copyrighted, its tone is not appropriate for an encyclopedia; it sounds more like a eulogy than a factual account of someone's life and work. Please sign your comments with four tildes. 32.218.34.230 (talk) 17:40, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest at Reid Bryson[edit]

Hello, Tomji Turner. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Reid Bryson, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 32.218.34.230 (talk) 17:40, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, gee. I can't write the article because of conflict. And apparently I can't use an article by someone else either. Yes, it sounds like a eulogy. It is. I guess wikipedia would rather use a small town newspaper article instead of something published by a major university who appreciated a world famous scientist. I guess wikipedia would rather use a quote out of context. Did you look at the link that the article came from? What more verification do you need?

This is no longer a concern of mine. No need to respond.

Thomas Bryeon. Username Tomji Turner.

All you have to do is rewrite the plagiarized text in your own words in an encyclopedic tone and submit it to the article's talk page. If you can't be bothered to do that, then I guess you don't really care. 32.218.34.230 (talk) 17:53, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry that my frustration comes through. Over the next months I will attempt to do what you suggest.

I added a link to Devitt's eulogy to the article so interested readers can go there. 32.218.34.230 (talk) 18:05, 28 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]